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grain to the sone of 1 om and 1 
supposing, however, that it might unt to 
. which is almost do bon — — of —.— 
s epla E py 
Re 
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oa 
S 
meg be sufficient for all general pu irposes. 
um temperature should be inserted in the jo 
max 
E for the purpose, with th 
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within. a parr compass of known facets, I forthar Paterbg instrument once only in the 24 (at 
sertained that by reducing leaves to ashes there 9 A. M.), and the warmest part of the day occurring in 
would remain about 34 lbs. of inorgani? nanure ; no our climate about M., the registering the eter 
since the few pounds produced by ning the r obviously gives th temperature o re- 
caused an incre of 26 lbs. of gme pon 32 perches, | ceding day ; whilst the coldest period usually occurring 
which is 1-5th of an acre, five times that amount will [a short time before sunrise, the temperature 
130 Ibs. p ere, which i 1 than the weight is, as has been alr ady noticed, that of the day on whic 
Neben of the best Wheat. But here the quantity the observa ion is 5 W l purposes 
of manure is not strictly eres: ; in the 2 25 I shou clin 
experiments the quantities t only t 
phosphate and the 
but 
sulphate of eae will serve for com- 
— ich the 1 princi aly. ae are 
3 a ero Wheat th soda. Never- 
5 appears that the application of 12 ounces 
of inorganic e manure increased the crop by 34 lbs.; 
Yy 
e amount of equal 
Ibs., * inerease o uld b 
co 
again is 
more than the w weight of the 2 bushel e to have 
— sho 
If an 
fe pa — ll 
i e fres 
tal fea bring up again the soluble manure which 
through the so 
t of the sun, it is not 
5 goo ve no 
E to have a a free . of air, it is not good 3 
iolen cannot, th 
refore 
mn expense seruple not 
ch might — . 
8, because the 
manure Aera 1 * E favour: the health of 
tolerable 
ey E 
ie a: almak: 
andseape, and a source of fuel for 
-. Ven, and a supply of timber f. 99 use the 
ernon Harcourt, West D 
arms; and in 
ting a 5 upon the best method 
n by |w 
iis or an 
produce. 
= mar 
| rational seeders bs: aah to be elicited: and is scien- 
Verittemz a 8 nvited the 
| muni ity of landowners, tenants, 
acture: echan 
opinion on the cultivation of t ‘the 
ar 
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rer tea which s z heat and tcl 
o be suspended yi — 
thatch or asphalt, a aper Kapn 10 itis weal the 
north tw far e other three 
e sufficient, the: extre 
ook as the em 
3 wala as 
4 feet from the grou 
= mouth of the ip is PATIR 
xamined ev 
be advisable 
f each day, whether windy, fine, 
oudy. The 2 of a rain- gauge and re- 
by Bate in the Poiiltsy, 
ao tsi — required to 
If an hygrometer could 
struments it would be 
poean of myt the it m do 
h I have named 
ould m 
the — of elimate upon a mperfect as 
they are, pa? already furnished results of sufficient 
ow how valuable a series o 
be able to predict with certainty the 
any hates 
B Law 
Thin Seeding. —“ Opi nionum commenta Dies delet, 
judicia confirmat.” Cié. de Nat. Deo.—With 
uch a text as this how can I be 
course 
ng inven 
y not; ure ju adicia which 
George Wilkins would not. have-been 
would not in that case se ex 
its advocate ; he 
w 
aspish stings in their tails buzz —— — 
* on as him. eee | are the “J. SA 's, and the 
ER. and the “T. B.'s, and a th 
national one, ame they had the 
heart, as the rational nenen 
— . — ane er fietitious signatures, Who 
walk about in the dark with e even their faces and 
dirks in their poe — of the 
thorough drain 
= meee — * 
— ach and 
nswer that t are not,and to 
e has 
serutiny tn the 
Such is 
abode, the name. of 
ir ias 
veracity of every statement he has yet made. 
the difference between the advocates 
seeding ! rie ae 
pes 
founded on scientific kuowledue and proved to be cor- 
riments. Oh! how the mind re- 
at the! low cun ning of 
8 
eee . 
bh Or 21 aa na * t 
è | farm 
e 
hajt nearly 17 coombs an acre 
carefully 
8 
changes in the seasons will that 
but Nat seed 
Dies confirmat. Had it been the invention of yesterday, 
el 8 * 
| e honour of 5 z 
n of het he has appended 1 his name, * place 
his estate, 
gee ders, a 
nts, and repeated fail one of certainty, | Which 
and consequently thin seeders, since knowl 
and ‘thin seeding always go i cerry and, like 
wins, one cannot be separated from th 
without death to 
mind o 
n 
1 
m which m c a un 
In those investigations I foun that, | Sie: l as all 
those nations were for all the arts that can adorn and 
umani . was at the head of them 
=) and — the best, t 
out so much as h 
which it is founded. d over k 
wes nnot farm ; they have published to all m 
hat the ey cannot. That redoubtable tana the 
4 J. B.“ of Allesley, told us chat he by his thick sowing 
system had no corn off 20 acres 1385 land that was fit for 
the miller; that is, what he 
or dogs; and 
che world that such was 9 
acres in his neighbourhoo 
to thin seeding, I never ge them fail in a a single in- 
stan nee; last _year 1 had exactly i N an acre; @ 
v. G. Bu 
rmester, 
Mr. Mechi had 145 
oombs a aere, and Mr. Davis’s crops were E- ly as. 
is true “against 90 this = J. B.“ has enlisted a 
pion in one which he tae pitted 
against “G. W. ” who talks . oe 724 s coombs an 
acre, but whet her grown in terra in nubibus 
he leaves us to form our own N ae Wilkins, 
Wiz, Dec. 28. 
Pie ult —“ S.“ says some of his n sown with 
es in which salt formed a part ca 
other Ehina they did not, and aseribes 
tact with the salt. 
certain cham 
nure, among them 
ills with the 2 16 7 280 remained dor- 
soil, to muriate, 
ea which sefion sustained 12 ie known disposition of 
muriatic acid t ergo ion, continuously de- 
pried the soil 9 us to 8 he Batley o a its water, and 
soprevented vegetation. À think the be 
t is on the surface, immediat 
th 
long time igi the 8 
hig a forenoon, — 
dry. tg ad ordinary 
I. hav 
salt with — pan "kind of small seeds, 
of moisture 
come up, and if they were more moist whe 
I have much injured Carrots by sowing salt over 
when aay were above 8 and this year I nearly 
destroyed Indian bia watering it with a 
| solution of guano nin cg Sina corn; I threw it a month 
back by it. I t destroyed 0 ainar by dropping a pinch of 
salt in ae e in which the plants were dibbled.— 
J. M. Goo 
Linsce eta as e various . 1 peti read of 
Linseed 
am openin 
m | Painful, 15 observe, is such stuff as rg . and 1 fit t 
hole 3 
3 —— 
rs formed two 
emanate from a lunatie asylum; as 
and labourers 
> 18+ CO; 
practice ; it had its origin in England in the most eni 
rant and dark riod o 2 thin, or rational 
. Aae, 1 same age as the civil- 
isation of mankind ore I ventured to give my 
earth 
to produce food 
btedly the 
o | quantity of half-inch bones 
(foe Swede ee 
ed cows, would not 
can get at 4d. per galion) be a good addition. G. Go 
[No doubt.] Bee 
Cattle.—With t to the objection 
to Wen the N er and du * 
cattle = a length of however novel it may be in 
is not at all 60 i so in the mountains 
er curious 
an 1 practised without pear a useful 
from them, with the se of the oo ies 
investi neglecting e practice of Sty ras Bai 
all the polished nations of antiquity were scientific the cattle are housed (Novem — 5 
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